Saturday, December 31, 2011

Ring in the New Year

It's been a strange old year, full of stuff.
Good and Bad. But lets face it, in the bigger scheme of things with earthquakes and the bite of recession, it all makes my life look damned good. Should be grateful.

Professionally this was a reasonable year with a number of publications in Australia and New Zealand, but it's always the fish that gets away that disappoints after all it was, "...that big!"

Never mind, every set back is an opportunity, and I'm hoping to publish by Christmas next year. So that's the new year's resolution, and I'm trying to assemble the pictures for it now. The formal announcement will be later in the year when everything is ready to go :)

As for poetry. It's been a light year for actually writing poetry, but the blog has somewhat taken off. I've tripled my readership...and proved somewhat obliquely that sex really does sell. So having comfortably passed the 10,000 views threshold the aim for 2012 is 20,000 and to maybe rack up a little spending money. After all poetry isn't really pulling it's weight given the amount of time I waste writing the stuff ;) If only it wasn't so fun!

So there we have it.

Another year over. And I'm kind of pleased that it is. Let's hope that 2012 will be a good year for everyone. Happy New Year! :)

A.J. Ponder

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